Archive for October, 2008
Heroes tweet amongst us
The view from my Gmail window this morning: I’ve always had @stephenfry high on my fantasy dinner invitation list, but this is much better. I won’t even have to cook.
Blog Action Day: or how I learned to stop being selfish and love the power of porridge
I am a selfish person. That’s the main finding from my 59 days thinking about poverty: or rather, thinking about how little I usually think, let alone do, anything about poverty. I dodge the clipboard-wielding out-of-work actors on Victoria Street (and have even told one to fuck off on occasion). I use the clothing collection [...]
Happy birthday Dylan!
Yesterday was my son Dylan’s first birthday. He had a fun birthday weekend including this trip to Norbury Park swings and visits from all his grandparents. If you like, you can see more pictures of Dylan on my Flickr and Facebook albums. Daddy has also bought a Flip camera, full of regrets that there’s no [...]
Three cheers for the DFID bloggers (or DFID Officials: Unofficial)
This is far from breaking news, but I am way too impressed by the DFID bloggers to let it pass by unblogged. If you haven’t already, go check them out and add them to your reader. Things I love about this group blog include… it’s a proper group blog: individual reports that fascinate on their [...]
Avoid social media mistakes: forget the technology and focus on the task
Part of my job involves trying to get people enthusiastic about using social media. Another part involves trying to stop enthusiastic people using social media badly. It seems to be happening a lot lately. Some colleagues get excited about the idea of using a particular technology (let’s say: a wiki, a blog, or a social [...]
Dave’s top tens: social media tips for beginners
Dave Briggs is dishing out yet more real gems of social media know-how. Don’t miss them. 10 Social Media Steps – a walkthrough to take new users of social media from joining their first social network profile to fully fledged immersion in the social web phenomenon. Promises to be good. 10 different ways to post [...]
Hello, I'm Neil Williams. I'm a government web geek, a dad, a husband, a grower of veg, a keeper of hens and a lapsed comedy writer, roughly in that order. 
